- 61. RE: Class Champion? (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:44:07 -0800
- Very smart--good marketing. We're going to do the same thing at the Columbia River Classics this year--we're going to have very cool trophies and give a lot of them away. Every class in every race. _
- /html/fot/2006-01/msg00444.html (7,459 bytes)
- 62. RE: Leak down testing (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:33:31 -0800
- You need to have had the engine running at least briefly before the test, to get oil on the rings and the valves as well seated as they are going to be. == unsubscribe/change address requests to majo
- /html/fot/2006-01/msg00452.html (6,663 bytes)
- 63. RE: Canadian Road Racing - Publication Question (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:57:53 -0800
- There is a book out called Road Racing in Western Canada that covers the thirties to the late eighties. http://www.granvilleislandpublishing.com/profile/sportscarracing/summary.shtml I've got a copy
- /html/fot/2006-01/msg00457.html (6,776 bytes)
- 64. RE: vendor question (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:16:04 -0800
- Looks like a very new web site--most of the links don't do anything. I wonder if that's part of Rick Korn's company. If it is then it's reputable though I've never done business with them. I suspect
- /html/fot/2006-01/msg00470.html (6,669 bytes)
- 65. RE: TR3/4 Triumph scraper (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:31:28 -0800
- I'll forward this email to the Friends of Triumph mailing list, which includes most of the active TR racers. You might also want to get in touch with Tim Suddard, publisher of Grassroots Motorsports
- /html/fot/2006-01/msg00474.html (8,486 bytes)
- 66. RE: Tire Pressures (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:56:35 -0800
- 24 pounds, and if you use that you'll be three seconds a lap slower than you could be. That's not the answer you want. The long diatribe below is closer to the right one. It's important to develop yo
- /html/fot/2006-01/msg00477.html (9,150 bytes)
- 67. RE: Car Classification -.... and RULES (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 11:25:03 -0800
- "and when he pulled it we saw he had one of the most beautiful sets of roller rockers I had ever seen on it (which CVAR does not allow)." So here's the part about rules that kind of bug me. What kind
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00019.html (11,159 bytes)
- 68. RE: Car Classification -.... and RULES (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 11:31:51 -0800
- Incidentally, I DO have a slick set of roller rockers in Peyote right now--I borrowed them from Bill Hart when my rocker shaft broke at the Fall Finale race. They look lovely, but they made no differ
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00020.html (9,409 bytes)
- 69. RE: New guy (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:11:02 -0800
- Welcome, Jim. I haven't met you but I've had the pleasure of racing against Syd's cars a number of times. They sure are pretty and a lot of fun to dice with. == unsubscribe/change address requests to
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00021.html (6,484 bytes)
- 70. RE: Car Classification -.... and RULES (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:13:46 -0800
- I believe we are in violent agreement, Henry. == unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00024.html (8,186 bytes)
- 71. RE: Car Classification -.... and RULES (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:03:16 -0800
- In the light of your SCCA statement it's hard to justify the remainder. SCCA Production cars got very expensive to build and maintain because a competitive car needed to be very precisely tweaked at
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00028.html (11,009 bytes)
- 72. RE: Cams and followers (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:15:08 -0800
- It will always remain an area of contention. I think cam manufacturers are just being conservative with a practice that is easy for them to say--it's not their box full of lifter that gets knocked ov
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00038.html (7,038 bytes)
- 73. RE: Car Classification -.... and RULES (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:06:20 -0800
- Well said. I don't mind running against any car including Trans Am and Can Am cars, open wheel, etc.. I know who and what I should be able to beat. A great race in mid pack is way better than being a
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00039.html (9,035 bytes)
- 74. RE: Cams and followers (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:24:36 -0800
- There have been a startling number of ways that engine manufacturers choose to accomplish the feat of setting valve clearance. With some there are different bucket thickness, and the option to use a
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00042.html (7,492 bytes)
- 75. RE: Car Classification -.... and RULES (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:43:53 -0800
- Sure, happens all the time. Webers are directly tunable. Once you understand them you can make them do exactly what you want. SU's and other altitude compensating constant velocity carburetors are le
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00078.html (9,064 bytes)
- 76. RE: new topic-oil coolers for my TR4A (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:48:13 -0800
- Another great trick is to have a radiator shop make you a combination radiator--both oil and water in one rad. The nice thing about these is that they serve as a heat exchanger too--the water gets ho
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00085.html (8,135 bytes)
- 77. RE: Moreon Webers (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:52:15 -0800
- I'm so used to tweaking jets for motorcycles that it's second nature to me. Before fuel injection and constant velocity carbs every serious racing motorcycle, whether street or dirt, had to be rejett
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00093.html (6,814 bytes)
- 78. RE: Hallet (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:13:43 -0800
- At our age, 2020 is probably indefinitely. == unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00106.html (6,358 bytes)
- 79. RE: new topic-oil coolers for my TR4A (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:18:17 -0800
- Actually, there are some good ways to mount coolers directly to the radiator. The kind of push-through connectors that you use to mount electric fans. I've seen them used well. == unsubscribe/change
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00108.html (8,001 bytes)
- 80. RE: Hallett Shootout - Car Classification - Clarification (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:15:48 -0800
- Allow me to translate--I speak innuendo with a delightful dissimulation Last year I helped get the Columbia River Classic stepped up a notch, and one of the notches I really wanted to step was gettin
- /html/fot/2005-12/msg00118.html (9,970 bytes)
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